# taxa
## English
### Etymology

The plural form of taxon, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

taxa
* plural of taxon
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin taxāre (“to appraise”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtak.sə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtak.sa]

### Noun

taxa f (plural taxes)
* rate (the proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another)
    taxa de mortalitat ― mortality rate
* tax

#### Related terms

* taxar

### Further reading

* “taxa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “taxa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “taxa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “taxa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cuiba
### Noun

taxa
* father

## Czech
### Noun

taxa f
* charge, rate (fixed amount of money paid for given extent of service)

## Danish
### Etymology

Shortening of Taxamotorkompagniet, equivalent to taxameter + kompagnie, from Medieval Latin taxa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taksa/, [ˈtˢɑɡ̊sa]

### Noun

taxa c (singular definite taxaen, plural indefinite taxaer)
* cab, taxi

#### Synonyms

* hyrevogn
* taxi

#### Descendants

* Greenlandic: taxa

### Further reading

* taxa on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

taxa
* third-person singular past historic of taxer

### Anagrams

* axât

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese taixa (14th century), from taixar (“to tax; to charge a fee”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle; to compute”), from tangō (“I touch”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaʃa̝/

### Noun

taxa f (plural taxas)
* fee (monetary payment)
    Synonyms: prezo, tarifa
* (taxation) tax (money paid to the government)
    Synonyms: imposto, tributo
** 1368, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Monasterio de San Salvador de Pedroso en tierras de Trasancos, A Coruña: Deputación Provincial, page 259:prometo, commo leal vasallo, deles fazer pagar as ditas taixas et pedidos et dézemos que devanI promise, as a loyal vassal, to make them pay the aforementioned taxes and allotments and tithes that they owe
* (economics) a percentage or ratio of a value

#### Related terms

* taxación
* taxador
* taxar

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “taxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “taixa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taxa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Greenlandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Danish taxa.

### Pronunciation

* (Nuuk) IPA: /taksa/, [tək.sa]

### Noun

taxa (plural taxat)
* taxi

## Latin
### Verb

taxā
* second-person singular present active imperative of taxō

### References

* “taxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* taxa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* taxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ʃɐ/
* Rhymes: -aʃɐ
* Homophone: tacha
* Hyphenation: ta‧xa

### Etymology 1

From taxar (“to tax; to charge a fee”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle; to compute”), from tangō (“to touch”).

#### Noun

taxa f (plural taxas)
* fee (monetary payment charged for professional services)
    Synonyms: pauta, tarifa
* tax (money paid to the government)
    Synonyms: imposto, tributo
* (mathematics, statistics) rate (amount measured in relation to another amount)
    Synonym: índice
* (economics) a percentage or ratio of a value
    Synonyms: percentagem, razão

##### Derived terms

* taxa de câmbio
* taxa de risco

##### Related terms

* taxação
* taxadamente
* taxado
* taxador
* taxar
* taxativamente
* taxatividade
* taxativo
* taxável

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

taxa
* inflection of taxar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French taxer, from Latin taxare.

### Verb

a taxa (third-person singular present taxează, past participle taxat) 1st conjugation
* to tax